Determinants of Potentially Inappropriate Medication Use among Community-Dwelling Older Adults.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To examine the determinants of potentially inappropriate medication (PIM) use.

Data sources/study setting

U.S. nationally representative data on (n = 16,588) noninstitutionalized older adults (age ≥65) with drug use from the 2006-2010 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey.

Study design

We operationalized the 2012 Beers Criteria to identify PIM use during the year, and we examined associations with individual-level characteristics hypothesized to be quality enabling or related to need complexity.

Principal findings

Almost one-third (30.9 percent) of older adults used a PIM. Multivariate results suggest that poor health status and high-PIM-risk conditions were associated with increased PIM use, while increasing age and educational attainment were associated

SUBMITTER: Miller GE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5517671 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature